Book Review
Media and power
February 7, 2012Canadian sociologist Jeffery Klaehn has put together a penetrating collection of essays dealing with the political economy of the mass media spanning a broad range of topics.
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Left on the bookshelf: “Blacks, Reds and Russians”
January 24, 2012There is a much less known story of another group of immigrants who sought freedom and opportunity, but it wasn't to America but to the Soviet Union that they fled.
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“Retirement Heist” shows how they stole the pensions
January 11, 2012Three decades ago, prior to Reagan's "Republican Revolution," 40 percent of America's retirees were receiving real, defined benefit pensions.
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Finding Joe Hill in new biography
December 20, 2011Nowhere is the romance of the Industrial Workers of the World more beautifully told than in the life and songs of its greatest troubadour, Joe Hill.
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“Why Marx Was Right”: lively challenge to 10 myths
December 16, 2011Eagleton's bright, witty book marches forward into the usual stumbling blocks erected over the decades in the environment of popular ideology and topples them.
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